pickaxe

英 [ˈpɪkæks]

美 [ˈpɪkæks]

n.  镐; 尖嘴镐; 鹤嘴锄

BNC.35856 / COCA.32809

牛津词典

noun

• 镐；尖嘴镐；鹤嘴锄
  a large heavy tool that has a curved metal bar with sharp ends fixed at the centre to a wooden handle. It is used for breaking rocks or hard ground.

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 pickax


• 鹤嘴锄；丁字镐
  Apickaxeis a large tool consisting of a curved, pointed piece of metal with a long handle joined to the middle. Pickaxes are used for breaking up rocks or the ground.

英英释义

noun

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
  1. they used picks and sledges to break the rocks
  Synonym:pickpickax

双语例句

• The pickaxe struck for a moment with a dull sound that drew out of Dant è s'forehead large drops of perspiration.
  鹤嘴锄最初敲上去时只发出了一声沉重浑浊的声音，那种声音使唐太斯的前额挂满了大滴的冷汗。
• Instead of a pickaxe, you can offer me some tea.
  镐不用，你倒可以给我一些茶。
• He pecked at the hard ground with a pickaxe.
  他用鹤嘴锄掘坚硬的土地。
• He approached the hole he had dug. and now, with the aid of the torch, saw that his pickaxe had in reality struck against iron and wood.
  他举着火把走近他刚才挖成的洞的前面，看到鹤嘴锄的确掘到了铁皮和木头。
• Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example.
  例如，用冰镐或者坚硬的地面攻击。
• He rested on his pickaxe for a while.
  他在尖嘴镐上靠了一会儿。
• He stole the pickaxe from the production team and was therefore criticized by the team leader.
  他偷了生产队的铁镐，遭到了队长的批评。
• Dants struck with the sharp end of his pickaxe, which entered someway between the interstices I was shocked to learn my co-worker was involved in a shakedown.
  得知我的合作人卷入了一起敲诈事件时，我惊呆了。
• To his more upset, every day he went to work hard in the field, pickaxe on the shoulder, but the ungrateful crops did not seem to have grown one inch higher, which made him very anxious.
  更让他烦心的是，他天天扛着锄头到田里辛辛苦苦地劳作，但是那些不解人意的庄稼似乎一点也没长高，这让他心急如焚。
• He took up a pickaxe into the job.
  他抄起一把锄头就干活。